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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The price of which of the following items was NOT listed in Chapter 2?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Lumber.
(c) Food.
(d) Land.

2. What did Almanzo hate most about Nebraska?
(a) The Heat.
(b) The Dust.
(c) The Flatness.
(d) The Wind.

3. What kind of people lived in Stanton?
(a) Germans.
(b) Irish.
(c) French.
(d) Russians.

4. Who made Laura's sewing box?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her father.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her son.

5. How long did the Wilders travel before leaving South Dakota?
(a) 1 day.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 1 week.

6. What did the Wilders call the place where they chose to move to?
(a) The Land of the Juicy Peach.
(b) The Land of the Golden Wheat.
(c) The Land of the Crawling Vineyard.
(d) The Land of the Big Red Apple.

7. What got lost on August 5th?
(a) The honey.
(b) The lap desk.
(c) The asbestos fire mats.
(d) The thermometer.

8. What did the animals pulling the wagons get cut on occasionally?
(a) Fence posts.
(b) Barbed wire.
(c) Arrow heads.
(d) Sharp rocks.

9. How are the fields in South Dakota described?
(a) Ruined.
(b) Plain.
(c) Rebounding.
(d) Scorched.

10. What city was the biggest they all saw in Nebraska?
(a) Corn Husker.
(b) Battle Creek.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Ainsworth.

11. What did Rose always do a few years beyond her grade level?
(a) Memorize.
(b) Read.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Write.

12. What did the Wilders do when they stopped with the Canadian woman?
(a) Avoided each other.
(b) Swapped stories.
(c) Sold supplies.
(d) Sang songs.

13. How many families were traveling in the party the Wilders were a part of?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

14. How long did it take for the Wilders to travel through Nebraska?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 1 week.

15. How did the Wilders cross the Platte River?
(a) They crossed at a narrow spot.
(b) They crossed a bridge.
(c) They forded it.
(d) They used a ferry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the wind in South Dakota described?

2. What did Rose's parents get sick with at the beginning of the book?

3. What day of the week did the Wilders NOT travel while on their journey?

4. How long did the crops fail in the place Rose was born?

5. How much was an acre of land selling for in Beldon, Nebraska?

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